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title: When they reached the farm, the cock flew up to the top of a high tr… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: When they reached the farm, the cock flew up to the top of a high tree to watch and see what happened to everybody. Who acts: houses, cock. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., with its depend
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 95

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When they reached the farm, the cock flew up to the top of a high tree to watch and see what happened to everybody.

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**Who acts:** houses, cock · **What happens:** reach, fly up, watch, see, happen · **To what, where:** farm · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (houses, cock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg70959:12:96
# text = When they reached the farm, the cock flew up to the top of a high tree to watch and see what happened to everybody.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	nsubj	_	_
23	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | houses *= house* | the farm |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent farm=Theme |
| 2 | **fly up** | past | the cock |  |  |  |  | to the top of a high tree *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to top=Result |
| 3 | **watch** | to-infinitive | the cock *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **see** | infinitive | the cock *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **happen** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to everybody; what *nsubj* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Project Gutenberg book 70959 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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